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Author SHA1 Message Date
Stefan Hajnoczi c3d331d28f vhost-user: document memory accesses
The vhost-user protocol specification does not define "guest address"
and "user address".  It does not explain how to access memory given such
addresses.

This patch explains how memory access works, including the IOTLB.

Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Cc: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
2017-12-22 01:42:03 +02:00
Stefan Hajnoczi 7722b1a78a vhost-user: fix indentation in protocol specification
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2017-12-22 01:42:03 +02:00
Felipe Franciosi 5df04f1762 vhost-user: fix legacy cross-endian configurations
Currently, vhost-user does not implement any means for notifying the
backend about guest endianess. This commit introduces a new message
called VHOST_USER_SET_VRING_ENDIAN which is analogous to the ioctl()
called VHOST_SET_VRING_ENDIAN used for kernel vhost backends. Such
message is necessary for backends supporting legacy (pre-1.0) virtio
devices running in big-endian guests.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Franciosi <felipe@nutanix.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Cui <cui@nutanix.com>
2017-08-02 00:13:25 +03:00
Paolo Bonzini d59157ea05 docs: create interop/ subdirectory
This is for the future interoperability & management guide.  It includes
the QAPI docs, including the automatically generated ones, other socket
protocols (vhost-user, VNC), and the qcow2 file format.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2017-06-15 11:18:39 +02:00